Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play-within-a-play begins, Spelvin enters dressed in black Renaissance garb, but the setting is a terrace of a posh hotel overlooking the harbor at Nice, and the first lines addressed to him are from Noel Coward's Private Lives. The plots thicken and boil. Beckett's Endgame and Happy Days are intermingled as well. With zany aplomb, Durang combines absurdist juxtapositions of lines and characters in Spelvin's massive identity crisis...
...Ministry of Education and Culture, some 400 angry teachers striking for higher wages and better working conditions last week unsuccessfully demanded an audience with Dzingai Mutumbuka, the Education Minister in the government of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. Shouted one protester: "Come out if you are not a coward!" The police soon moved in to arrest the teachers, along with a number of angry nurses who were besieging another government building. Government officials immediately outlawed further demonstrations as part of a new crackdown on dissent...
Morell is a pompous minister and a spellbinder in the pulpit. Marchbanks is a physical coward who baits people by ventilating their pretensions. His strength is a burning sense of vocation. Candida is an alluring marvel of self-control with wisdom flowing through every artery...
...took on the job of spreading the word about Wei's unjust punishment. "If I had not pointed out this unfairness," he writes, "I would have had to be either a coward or the worst kind of human being." On Nov. 11, 1979, Liu went to "democracy wall" in Peking to sell some of the 1,000 copies of the Wei trial transcript he had mimeographed. Agents of China's secret police, the Public Security Bureau (PSB) arrested some of the buyers. Liu then went to the PSB headquarters in Peking to seek redress for them...
...This makes me so damned angry, and one cannot be a coward and allow this to be forgotten," he said...